Feature Requests item #862085, was opened at 2003-12-17 20:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=862085&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Christian Spann (chaosguard) Assigned to: Ethan Blanton (eblanton) Summary: character coding in irc Initial Comment: Hello, which possible character coding standards am i able to use in irc. I get errors in irc client, but as there is no dropdown menu but just a text-filed i can't imagine what exactly to enter there. Thank You Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-11 13:02 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2003-12-23 12:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 the default DOES work without doing anything for the majority of gaim users. it is only the majority of european users (who are still a minority of gaim users overall) who have to play with it. (at least from what i've gathered watching these tickets and #gaim) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Christian Spann (chaosguard) Date: 2003-12-23 12:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=788500 First - the "My os is better than urs" discussion sucks! ;-) I run windows and linux and both have their purposes. Back to the thread. Sure - but in the future a majority of users (also in linux) won't have a detailed knowledge in this context. They just want to use it. So i just wanted to mention that this should sometime work correctly without doing anyting. I hat to try out what syntax the program accepts etc...! I knew which encoding i wanted, but not how gaim wants it to be spelled (Maybe my fault). And also i don't actually care about the importance of this feature. I just wanted to mention it. Maybe it could be put to the faq. All the way thanks for your time. Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ethan Blanton (eblanton) Date: 2003-12-23 09:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=298616 No, a dropdown really isn't reasonable... If you had a system that didn't suck, you would have seen that 'iconv -l' shows literally hundreds of encodings -- the vast majority of which you don't care about. (On my OSX box it lists 102, and on my Linux box it lists 945.) It seems that most Linux users know the encodings they want, and the ones who don't have iconv -l available and can usually pick their encoding out of that with a suitable application of, e.g., grep to narrow their choices. Given that, I don't think a dropdown is the right choice -- if Windows users are the only users who need it, surely an encoding dropdown is the least of the problems a Windows user deals with, and it is far secondary to the fact that the operating system is largely nonfunctional. Ethan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Christian Spann (chaosguard) Date: 2003-12-23 08:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=788500 I am running MS XP - so this command doesn't work. I figured out that the coding "iso-8859-1" is a valid string and works fine with german umlauts. Isn't it possible to replace the field with a dropdown box, where all os featured codings are listed? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ethan Blanton (eblanton) Date: 2003-12-18 10:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=298616 That depends on your operating system ... running 'iconv -l' at a command prompt should show you a list. Ethan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=862085&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
